http://www.allenefstathiou.com
judithallenefs@yahoo.com
ARTIST'S STATEMENT
My recent work references are photography, video and film. Photographic images are repeated in my work like single events that repeat in frames of a film, or over and over again in the media. The fragmented imagery, limited color and deteriorated images speak of the allusive and fragile nature of memory as an internalized film or photograph of events often focusing on random details.
Joining the use of emerging technology with more traditional printmaking and mixed media techniques, I use the computer as my primary tool for removing selected materials from their original context, and reassembling and recontextualizing the fragments for my work. As a computer output device I use an etching press. Inking with etching inks and printing on Asian papers, I use the computer printouts as paper printing plates. I then arrange the prints in mixed media collages on panels or gauze
My hybrid paintings combine digital manipulations of photographs and photolithographs, in mixed media oil painting. Much of my work develops personal iconography from family history and memory, appropriating images and texts form family diaries, photos, letters, and sketchbooks. My most recent series of paintings, The Healers, began with the discovery of an old photograph of my great grandmother, Eliza Neeley Allen, who was a healer in the Appalachian Mountains of Eastern Kentucky. In this series I places images of healers and herbalists next to images of medicinal plants. In a world much in need of healing, my aim is to suggest that art may be a powerful form of healing.
BRIEF RESUME
Selected Solo Exhibitions
- 2007 Retrospective, Jill Yakas Gallery, Athens, Greece
- 2006 New Works Whitney Art Works, Portland, Maine, two person exhibition
- 2003 Gathering Tiers Jill Yakas Gallery, Athens, Greece
- 2001 What I found in my Mother's House. Hay Gallery, Portland, Maine
- 1995 New Works, Jill Yakas Gallery, Athens, Greece
- 1992 Shards Prothiki Gallery, Athens, Greece
- 1990 New Works, Jill Yakas Gallery, Athens, Greece
International Biennials and Selected Group Exhibitions
- 2007 Wax, Whitney Artworks, Portland, Maine
- 200 Printmaking in Maine 1980 - 2005, Center for Contemporary Art, Rockport, Maine
- 2006 Innovative Techniques/Alternative Srufaces in Printmaking, University of Maine, Augusta
- 2006 Peregrine Press Celebrating 15 Years, Saco Museum, Saco, Maine
- 2005 Accord George Marshall Store Gallery, York, Maine
- 2004 Jill Yakas Gallery, Athens, Greece
Peregrine Press at Aucocisco Gallery, Portland, Maine - 2003 AFI at Kleisthenous, Kleisthenous Gallery, Athens, Greece
Ornament as Content, Hay Gallery Portland, Maine. - 2002 AFI in the Round, Ibrahim Han Mosque, Rethymno, Crete, Greece
Small Works, 80 Washington Square East Gallery, NY, New York
Saco Museum, Still Lives a Tradition Retold, Saco, Maine. - 2001 International Exhibition of Myth and Vision, Athens, Greece
- 2000 80 Washington Square East Gallery, New York, New York
AFI 20 Years, Terrakotta Gallery, Thessaloniki, Greece
AFI New Works, Monohoros, Athens, Greece
Awards
- 2004 Good Idea Grant, Maine Arts Commission with support from Th NEA
- 2001 International Exhibition of Myth and Vision, Athens, Greece, Second Prize in Painting
- 1986 Cracow International Print Biennial, Purchase Prize from Museum National Warsaw
- 1984 Norwegian International Print Biennial, Fredrikstad, Norway, Honorable Mention
- 1975 Chaloner Prize Grant, Chaloner Prize Foundation, New York, USA
Education
- 1992 MED, University of LaVerne, LaVerne, California.
- 1989 BFA, Tufts University, Medford and School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
- 1967 Diploma from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.